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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. – Harold MacMillan

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At home, you always have to be a politician when youre abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. – Harold MacMillan

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Whats an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesnt know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesnt admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesnt really know how much. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. – Felix Frankfurter

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America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an ?lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment. – W. H. Auden

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What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home. – Proverb

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